That same afternoon the will was opened. There were legacies of ten millions to Walter and to Aurora, and of two millions to James’s children. The rest of the estate, seventy millions, was left unconditionally—to Helen. The will was just one month old.
Walter was beaten in a long contest to have it set aside, and have the estate equally divided among the heirs. The lawyers got five millions. When Helen was finally victorious, she devoted all, except eight millions for James and ten millions for Delamotte and herself, to the magnificent endowment of her father’s various public enterprises. The huge palace she made over into the “James Galloway Memorial Museum of Art.”
“I only carried out his real will,” she said, “for he was one of the noblest men that ever lived—and nobody understood him but me.”
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